Lions tight end Eric Ebron planned to swap jerseys with Julius Peppers after the Packers' Week 13 game in Detroit.
The two former University of North Carolina stars agreed via text to make it happen. That was before the Hail Mary.
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According to the Detroit Free Press, Ebron watched the Packers celebrate their improbable win and decided the deal was off.
“We already had it done,” Ebron told the Free Press. “Made. Sealed. After that happened, I just was like, ‘You keep that, bro. There’s no way I want that in my house.’”
Ebron later scored a Todd Gurley jersey after a Lions loss to the Rams.
Some might see the league-wide practice of jersey swapping as a kind of fraternization with the enemy that would make fans and old school players barf.
That’s not how some current players see it.
“I think fans get it confused, honestly,” Lions safety Glover Quin said. “We play a game. Somebody’s going to win, somebody’s going to lose. That don’t take away friendships, that don’t take away respect.
“… No, you still go out, you shake hands, you tell them good job this, good job that. It don’t take away from you losing, it don’t take away from the fact that you’re human. Like, what’s wrong with me taking somebody’s jersey or switching jerseys with somebody that I respect? Fans feel like you lose a game you got to go sit in a house and curl up in the closet or something.”